and visible communities of religious Muslims more quickly labeled as dangerous fundamentalists (Zürcher, E.J., Linden, H., 2004). It is not only in the member states, but also in Turkey itself, that public and political manifestations of Islam raise controversy. Evidence for this can be found in the countless "headscarf incidents" in Turkey, as well as in the periodic interventions by the Turkish army against democratically elected leaders with overt religious affiliations. Many supporters of Turkish nationalist and secular parties fear that it is precisely the religious fundamentalists who would be given free rein should the military, as a result of EU pressure, be forced to withdraw completely from politics. They are wary of demands by the European Parliament that Turkey should adopt a "more relaxed position" towards Islam in particular and religion in general. Other groups, too, such as emancipated young woman, atheists and gays, distrust the
The highest honour is accorded to them if they could speak the language with British or French accent. It would even accord them higher dignity if they let everyone know that they had forgotten how to speak their native tongue. African culture is faced with extinction. A case in point is this book I am writing using English rather my own language, Igbo. Africa will be the first continent to totally lose its cultural affiliations within the next 50 years or less. The Chinese, the Japanese, the Indian, the Pakistani, the Arabs will all continue to maintain their culture through their language, spoken and written. The total destruction of the Black race as a people started a long time ago and has accelerated with the advent of technology. While the Japanese, Chinese, Indians and Pakistanis have acquired nuclear weapons technology, and they did it using their own respective languages. As a victim of my own